Newsweek polled it's readers, asking which five books they've always wanted to read, but haven't.
These are the top responses (in alphabetical order):
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Bible
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward, A New Approach
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Major Works - John Donne
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Ulysses - James Joyce
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
That got my curious roused as to what I had/hadn’t read and whether I’d want to read any of the latter. The one thing I’m sure of is, no matter how many books I read, other folks always seem to have read cooler ones.
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READ MOST OF IT/STILL DO = The Bible
READ/GOOD READ = Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
READ/LONG-WINDED = The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
READ/BRILLIANT = The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
READ/TEDIOUS = Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
READ/LONG TIME AGO = Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
READ/SOME = The Major Works - John Donne
READ/MORE SHOW THAN SUBSTANCE = Ulysses - James Joyce
READ/GOOD READ BUT AFTER AWHILE, MAGIC-REALISM GETS BORING = One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
READ/TOO MUCH NARRATIVE/HIS, Anna Karenina, IS A BETTER READ = War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
DON’T KNOW/NEW TO ME = The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = The Aeneid - Virgil
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = Paradise Lost - John Milton
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
HAVEN'T READ/WON’T/TOO DEPRESSING = The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward, A New Approach
HAVEN'T READ/MIGHT SOMEDAY = Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
HAVEN'T READ/MIGHT SOMEDAY = Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
-The only "might someday" I can think of in addition to those two would be, Pride and Prejudice.
Okay, now it's your turn.
Bayou Bill
These are the top responses (in alphabetical order):
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Bible
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward, A New Approach
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Major Works - John Donne
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Ulysses - James Joyce
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
That got my curious roused as to what I had/hadn’t read and whether I’d want to read any of the latter. The one thing I’m sure of is, no matter how many books I read, other folks always seem to have read cooler ones.
==
READ MOST OF IT/STILL DO = The Bible
READ/GOOD READ = Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
READ/LONG-WINDED = The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
READ/BRILLIANT = The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
READ/TEDIOUS = Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
READ/LONG TIME AGO = Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
READ/SOME = The Major Works - John Donne
READ/MORE SHOW THAN SUBSTANCE = Ulysses - James Joyce
READ/GOOD READ BUT AFTER AWHILE, MAGIC-REALISM GETS BORING = One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
READ/TOO MUCH NARRATIVE/HIS, Anna Karenina, IS A BETTER READ = War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
DON’T KNOW/NEW TO ME = The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = The Aeneid - Virgil
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = Paradise Lost - John Milton
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
HAVEN'T READ/NOT INTERESTED = Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
HAVEN'T READ/WON’T/TOO DEPRESSING = The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward, A New Approach
HAVEN'T READ/MIGHT SOMEDAY = Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
HAVEN'T READ/MIGHT SOMEDAY = Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
-The only "might someday" I can think of in addition to those two would be, Pride and Prejudice.
Okay, now it's your turn.
Bayou Bill
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